Beyer Peacock 0-4-0
tram order No. 6413 WP No.2464 supplied to New South Wales, Australia
in 1885 now preserved at the National Tramway Museum, Crich.

Other Types of
Engines

The 1880s saw an increasing
range of locomotive types being manufactured. Between 1883 and
1886, a total of 71 tram engines with vertical boilers and cylinders
left Gorton Foundry. These embodied Wilkinson's patented arrangement
of geared drive (6336) and some were fitted with superheaters,
condensers, silencers and automatic brakes. One of these engines,
which used to work on the Manchester, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham
Tramways, has been presented to the Museum and is being restored.
Steam trains never became very popular and were soon ousted by
electric ones. In 1888, six 4-4-0 compound engines were completed
for the Buenos Ayres & Rosario Railway (7011) which were
the first compounds built by Beyer, Peacock and the first used
in that country. These engines were fitted with special starting
valves developed by Lange, Von Borries of the Prussian State
Railways, and Wordsell of the North Eastern Railway, so that
both cylinders could be used for starting with an automatic change
over to compound expansion when running.

In 1886, Messrs. Lange and
Livesey patented an arrangement of rack drive. This had an independent
frame for the cog wheels so that the cogs could take up any uneveness
in their track independently of the ordinary wheels. A pair of
cylinders was fitted on each side, each piston driving a cogwheel,
but there was only one set of valve gear to work the pair of
pistons. This enabled double the power to be applied to the cogwheels
without unduly large cylinders or a complicated system of levers
and connecting rods. Among other places where this type of engine
was used were the Puerto Cabello & Valencia Railway (6909),
and the Transandine Railway (7257). On some rack engines for
the Usui Tonge incline of the Japanese State Railways (7868)
built in 1895, long chimneys were fitted to take the steam and
smoke clear of the cab. A design, submitted for the Snowdon Mountain
Railway, was not accepted.